Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds very like me - except I have gone digital now and the film cameras are all gathering dust except Xpan and Mamiya 7. The only camera item I can remember selling was the 400mm f5.6 Zeiss for Contarex sold on impulse to a collector who offered what seemed to me to be a high price. I have regretted it ever since, though there is no sensible reason why. Frank On 4 Jul, 2007, at 22:16, Marc James Small wrote: > The only camera I have sold which I have come to bitterly miss was > a Prewar Voigtl?nder Superb with a Heliar lens. This was a > wonderful camera with a wonderful lens. Otherwise, I just hold > onto cameras -- I have boxes and shelves loaded with the things. > For instance, I have an M6 Wetzlar, an M3 DS, a IIIg, IIIf RDST and > a IIIc. I have a bunch of Contax RF and Contarex gear. I have > Rolleiflex TLR's coming out of the ears, and some Ikoflices as > well. Retinas. Hasselblad. Werras. Prakticas. Praktinas. And > more -- I even have some Canon stuff. And the lenses! Kifltt, > Zeiss, Leitz, Kodak &c &c. Teles, macro, micro, normal. I have > enough photographic gear to sink a small battleship. > > Now, I tend to be conservative in my use of the gear though I have > shot with all but a couple of my cameras. Generally, I only use > the Leica cameras, the 2.8GX and 2.8F Rolleiflex TLR's, a Werra > III, and a couple of IIIc Retinas (one with JSK lenses and the > other with Rodenstock). On occasion I will pull out a Contarex > Cyclops just for shits and grins -- it is a wonderful camera. And > I do regularly use my Hasselblad SWC though the 2000F tends to be > used mainly for microphotography with Luminars and Photars. > > Oh! I do own a Rollei digital P&S. I use it a bit but I still > haven't figured out how to process the images. Those chips get > really soggy when you put them into the soup in the darkroom. <he > grins> > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information